Confirmed: Second Life, online adult games to be banned outright in Australia

The Australian Minister for Censorship has today confirmed what I've been reporting for nearly two years: online adult games including Second Life will be banned in Australia. A spokesman for Censorship Minister Stephen "Goebbels" Conroy confirmed to Fairfax ... continue

Chinese filtering move demonstrates futility of Australian censorship proposal

The Chinese Government has issued a decree that all computers sold in the country must include filtering software from July 1. The software will allow the Chinese Government to filter sites it deems inappropriate on each PC, ... continue

Australian Government may backflip on compulsory internet censorship

The Australian Government for the first time since their election may be considering optional internet censorship, the original policy they were elected on. Australian Minister for Censorship Stephen Conroy today (Tuesday local time) told a Senate estimates committee ... continue

Australian Censorship Minister advocates illegal taping of Internet Accounts

Controversial Australian Minister for Censorship Stephen Conroy is back in the news after mocking a company for not breaking the law. Conroy, speaking at the CommsDay Summit in Sydney Tuesday, mocked ISP iiNet over its defense in court ... continue

Wikileaks threatens Australian Minister over censorship list: Conroy could be jailed in Sweden

Wikileaks has upped the ante in its stoush with the Australia Government, warning that any attempts to find the source of the leaked censorship list would cause an international incident, and could see Australian Minister for censorship ... continue

Google soon to be banned in Australia under draconian censorship laws

Recent action by the Australian Government may see Google and many other popular websites banned in Australia under existing censorship laws. Under the Communications Legislation Amendment (Content Services) Act 2007 sites that link to content that is Refused ... continue

Australian Government includes Poker sites, YouTube videos on censorship list

The blacklist of web sites banned by the Australian Government has been leaked to pubic disclosure site Wikileaks. The list details all sites "refused classification" in Australia that would be illegal to view in Australia, or as ... continue

Australian Minister confirms legal content may be blocked by Censorship Regime

Despite saying previously that "unwanted" content would be included in the Great Firewall of Australia, Australian Minister for Censorship Stephen Conroy had also claimed that the proposed Internet censorship regime was focused on blocking "illegal sites." Until ... continue

Australian Minister talks Internet Censorship as Victoria burns

As we've reported regularly over the last two days, Victoria, Australia has experienced the worst natural disaster in Australian history. As I type this post, the official death toll has risen to 130, with up to 200 ... continue

The Economic Cost of Internet Censorship in Australia

Much has been written about the social cost of the proposed Australian Internet censorship regime, but far too little on the economic cost. As the Rudd Government attempts to pass a $42 billion AUD stimulus package in an ... continue

Australia’s Internet Censorship Scheme Takes Money Allocated to Pursue Pedophiles

The Great Firewall of Australia, the Australian Government's Internet censorship scheme that is being sold as protecting children has resulted in significant budget cuts to a dedicated anti online child abuse police team. $2.8 million AUD ($1.86m USD) ... continue

Germany to Introduce CP Internet Censorship

Germany has announced that it will introduce compulsory Internet censorship starting in March. The censorship scheme will block access to child pornography, and will follow a similar model to Norway, where the Government decrees a list of child ... continue